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Hack a phone? I wouldn't know how ... | Simon Hoggarthttps://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/jul/15/simon-hoggart-week-never-hacked-phone
But a nose for news together with mouse-like cunning got me out of a few tight squeaks<p>✒At a time like this, all journalists ought to examine their consciences, those sometimes atrophied organs. I've never hacked a phone, and wouldn't know how; in my early days the height of criminality was thought to be acquiring a carbon copy of a rival's article.</p><p>I did have one felonious moment. A woman in Belfast had been shouting imprecations from her kitchen window at paratroopers who were in her neighbourhood, and a soldier had fired a rubber bullet into her eyes. Robert Fisk of the pre-Murdoch Times and I went to the hospital to see her, gaining entry by claiming we were relatives from Leeds. Ulster folk were always delighted to tell you what horrors they had suffered, so we assumed a warm welcome when we revealed who we were. Unfortunately the nurse, having said: "Some relatives have come all the way from Yorkshire to see you!" decided to stay at the bedside, so we couldn't maintain the fiction and instead made a swift exit. It was wrong, certainly, though it was also a matter of public interest, not public prurience.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/jul/15/simon-hoggart-week-never-hacked-phone">Continue reading...</a>Newspapers & magazinesPhone hackingNational newspapersNewspapersMediaRupert MurdochFirst world warWorld newsDavid BeckhamFootballChildrenSocietyBryan FerryMusicPress intrusionFri, 15 Jul 2011 20:00:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/jul/15/simon-hoggart-week-never-hacked-phonePhotograph: Cine Text/Allstar/SportsphotoJudy Garland in The Wizard of Oz. Rupert Murdoch is now the wizard – the curtain has been whisked back and there is an old, bewildered man. Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar/SportsphotoPhotograph: Cine Text/Allstar/SportsphotoJudy Garland in The Wizard of Oz. Rupert Murdoch is now the wizard – the curtain has been whisked back and there is an old, bewildered man. Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar/SportsphotoSimon Hoggart2011-07-15T20:00:00Z